Nicholas Hilliard & his Pupil Isaac Oliver

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Copyright Victoria and Albert Museum

Isaac Oliver, portrait of an unknown woman

Isaac Oliver (about 1560-1617)
Portrait of an unknown woman
About 1596-1600
Watercolour on vellum, stuck to plain card pasteboard
Signed bottom left 'IO' in monogram
Museum no. P.12-1971
Purchased with funds from the National Art Collections Fund and the Pilgrim Trust

This sitter has traditionally been called 'Frances Howard, Countess of Somerset'. The formerly tarnished silver has been retouched.